Videogum Home - designed by Guilherme Rosa

 

Category: Reality TV

November 4, 2009

The Biggest Kirstie Kirstie Alley is getting her own reality show about her "efforts to lose weight while raising two teenagers." I'm sure this will be respectful, edifying, and great for her career! RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNN to your DVR!

Comments (7) latest by EtWB

October 28, 2009

Where Is 2012 When You Need It? Jon Gosselin and the Octo-Mom are going to go on a reality TV "date"? DON'T BOTHER RINGING THAT BELL, TIBETAN MONK, WE ARE DONE HERE.

Comments (25) latest by davidcxr

October 23, 2009

An Open Letter To The Real Housewives Of Atlanta

thumbnail: An Open Letter To The Real Housewives Of Atlanta

Dear the Real Housewives of Atlanta,

Goodbye!

Last night, of course, marked the finale of your second season, so in some senses this could have been goodbye for now. A temporary hiatus, as you all go back to your foreclosing McMansions and pour white wine into your wounds. Brush out your wigs. Take a few months to rest your scream-muscles and your refill your betrayal batteries. But I'm not saying goodbye "for now." I'm saying goodbye "forever."

I mean, honestly, we can't keep doing this, can we? Don't answer that.

You were a lot of fun last year, in season one. We were all on board with The Black Real Housewives. And Kim! What an American Treasure she turned out to be. Not only is she attentive and caring towards her children, a talented singer, and the definition of a housewife (in that she is married and lives in a house, not an ugly duplex), but she's also just really pleasant to look at. (THE REAL OPPOSITES OF THIS BLOG POST!) We have all been so lucky and to have been able to invite her into our homes every week.

But things have changed.

Continue reading An Open Letter To The Real Housewives Of Atlanta...

Posted by Gabe at 3:30 PM in ,
Tags: | | | | |

Comments (10) latest by langford

The Bigger Biggest Loser ABC is developing a variation on The Biggest Loser called Obese for people pursuing extreme weight-loss. Perfect. We're gonna need a bigger pair of Terrible Idea Jeans! Get it? Bigger? Because of fat.

Comments (9) latest by Sarcastically Misunder…

October 22, 2009

Top Chef S06E09: Restaurant Wars Is A Little Less Hell

thumbnail: Top Chef S06E09: Restaurant Wars Is A Little Less Hell

It's amazing that we are in season six of this show and they only just realized that Restaurant Wars is a ridiculous and outlandish test of absolutely nothing. "You have 45 minutes to make this abandoned warehouse look like an abandoned 'Chinese' warehouse in a test to see who is the best at a thing that would never happen under any other circumstances." So, for the first time in Top Chef history, the teams in this year's restaurant wars will not have to "decorate" their "restaurants," which as a viewer is an incredible relief, and I can only imagine that it was a relief to the contestants as well. "Aw," said Laurine, "but I wanted to go to Pier 1 Imports and spend two hours arguing over a pressed-tin giraffe sculpture and vanilla vs. cinnamon scented candles." Get it? Because Laurine is terrible. (FORESHADOWING.) Anyway, this week is Restaurant Wars, which is historically my least favorite challenge on this silly show, and this time it is still my least favorite but at the very least it is a little less my least favorite. Math.

But first, the Quickfire Challenge!

Continue reading Top Chef S06E09: Restaurant Wars Is A Little Less Hell...

Posted by Gabe at 12:50 PM in ,
Tags: | | |

Comments (27) latest by O*

October 8, 2009

America's Next Top Model S13E05: Menage À Barf

thumbnail: <![CDATA[America's Next Top Model S13E05: Menage À Barf]]>

[Gabe Liedman is a stand-up comedian, and is one half of the Gabe and Jenny comedy team with Jenny Slate. But at the top of that resume it states that he is Videogum's Official Expert on this season of America's Next Top Model.]

Fair warning: I have a crazy flu right now, so I am so high out of my mind on zinc that I'm not sure what's what. [Ed. note: GET WELL SOON!] Buuuuut....

YO. For realsies? Was that really an episode? Are you for realsies going to try and actualsies tellsies me that that was a goddamn episode of Top Model? I took two notes during the entire thing:
1. snore
2. where did I park my Kevorkian machine?

Oh my laaaaaaaaaaawd that was boring. Holy shit. Ho. Ly. Sheeeeeiiiiiittt. Someone BETTER refill Tyra's turkey jerky cabinet before next week, because I don't know if I can sit through that kind of garbage again (I can DEFINITELY sit through that kind of garbage again). Mama needs her salt to think!

Continue reading America's Next Top Model S13E05: Menage À Barf...

Posted by Gabe Liedman at 1:45 PM in ,
Tags: | |

Comments (16) latest by Captain Ron

Top Chef S06E07: Family Style Reality Show Dinner Party Because Of The Economy

thumbnail: Top Chef S06E07: Family Style Reality Show Dinner Party Because Of The Economy

You have to give Top Chef some credit. We are already seven episodes into the Las Vegas season and they are only just now introducing the slot machine? BRAVA. "We can't just use a slot machine," said one of the producers to one of the other producers, "the timing has to be just right." Obviously, roulette will be reserved for when the chefs have been whittled down to the Top 4, and one assumes/hopes that Russian Roulette will be used to determine the ultimate winner. "In this gun are five snowpeas, and one armor-piercing bullet. You have 30 minutes to pull the trigger as many times as you can." In any case, it is no use speculating about the future. All we can do is deal with the Quickfire Challenge that we have today. And that challenge involves a word-game slot machine. Each chef lines up three words and then has to create a dish using those words. "Grumpy, Armenian, Licorice," for example, or "Sarcastic, Ecuadorian, Poison."

Continue reading Top Chef S06E07: Family Style Reality Show Dinner Party Because Of The Economy...

Posted by Gabe at 12:40 PM in ,
Tags: | |

Comments (27) latest by Mike Z

October 1, 2009

There's No Way Flavor Flav's New Reality Show Could Be An Awful Idea!

thumbnail: There's No Way Flavor Flav's New Reality Show Could Be An Awful Idea!

Look, Flavor Flav on TV is like eye sausage. (Eye candy is for baby eyes.) It's satisfying and bad for you, and you do NOT want to know where it comes from. "Well, first we take this drug-riddled, borderline-retarded casing, and we stuff it with ground up racial stereotypes." STOP! Just put the sausage in my eyes! (That is what she said, because she is so confused about how "it" works.) But as great as the Flavor Flav eye sausage (it really is a gross metaphor and it makes me barf every time that I type it) has been so far, the latest Flavor Flav eye sausage (shudder) might be a sausage too far. From the Hollywood Reporter:

The original basic-cable ladies man is teaming with producer Eric Ortner to shop a new series to networks in which he returns to high school to receive his diploma.

Yiiiiiiiikes. No, sure, yes. There's absolutely no way that this could possibly be anything other than uplifting and positive, I'm sure.

Teacher: I'm sorry, Flavor Flav, but you got an F.
Flavor Flav: Why you sorry? F is my favorite letter because it is in my name twice! FLAVOR FLAAAAAAAAV!
Teacher: OK, well you got a Fail. Is Fail in your name?
Flavor Flav: HAaaaaAAAAAAAAAA

I'm pretty sure producer Eric Ortner recently changed his name from Michael Bluth, because he's made a terrible mistake. This is the best part, though:

Continue reading There's No Way Flavor Flav's New Reality Show Could Be An Awful Idea!...

Posted by Gabe at 12:00 PM in , ,
Tags: | | | |

Comments (40) latest by caringiscool

Older Posts ยป

Staff

  • Founder/Editor-In-Chief: Scott Lapatine
  • Senior Editor: Gabe Delahaye
  • Executive Editor: Amrit Singh

Info

Contact

You Can Make It Up logo
Gabe loves fan fiction. You Can Make It Up features his own personal alternate adventures starring some of our favorite characters.

You Can Make It Up: The Terminator Trap

The Terminator trudged along the wooded path towards the lake, his gun dangling by his side, the taunts still ringing in his hypersensitive bionic ears. He stared at the ground as he walked, and didn't even bother scanning anything with...

MORE »

The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time logo
After watching Death Sentence, a terrible movie starring Kevin Bacon as a father in search of vigilante justice directed by Saw's James Wan, Gabe embarked on The Hunt For The Worst Movie of All Time. This is his sad journey.

The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Funny Games

Do you ever eat foods that you know you don't like, just to remind yourself why you don't like them? I think that's a good thing to do sometimes! The worst case scenario is that you might momentarily have a...

MORE »

Monsters' Ball logo
This week's five highest rated comments as voted on by you, the lowest rated comment as voted on by you, and the editor's choice.

Monsters' Ball: The Week's Best Comments

Last weekend, something strange happened. Some of the Videogum Monsters created their own secret, password-protected chat room. In 2009! Incredible! I suppose every monster has his cave, or whatever. As it turned out, though, we already had a Videogum Chat...

MORE »

Double Dog logo
Blogging about TV and movies isn't all fun and videogames. Every week, Lindsay or Gabe will be presented with a physical or mental challenge that tests their bravery,patience, and taste.

Double Dog: I Took A TV Bus Tour Alone In A "Just Jack" Tshirt

The Challenge: I had to go on a 3.5 hour bus tour of totally random TV and film locations in New York City. Alone, and wearing a specific ridiculous tshirt. And I had to find someone to take my picture...

MORE »

Videogum Movie Club logo
Let's all go to the movies, and let's all see the same movie, and let's discuss it here.

The Videogum Movie Club: Where The Wild Things Are

I went to see Where the Wild Things Are on Saturday, but it was sold out. Ay-ay-ay. That was a surprise! I mean, anticipation for this movie seemed pretty high, but anticipation for lots of movies seems high, especially when...

MORE »